She stood in the Health and Beauty aisle and was fixated upon the soap display when I encountered her. She moved her cart and looked at me sheepishly. “Sorry,” she said, “too many choices, I guess.” I said, “I hear you. Kind of makes you miss the good old days when there were fewer choices, […]
Whose strength do you have? Your own? God’s? Aw, come’on, Barb, how is it even possible to have God’s strength? As we continue to look at 3 Words for Day-to-Day Christian Living, there are 3 words upon which we can rely: God Gives Strength. In fact, He delights to give strength to the least, the […]
Can you imagine never being tired? I can’t. I’m tired quite often and the older I get, the more easily tired I seem to feel. The concept that God Never Tires actually amazes me. He does all this work 24/7, 365 days a year, eternally… never retires or takes a vacation and never gets fatigued. […]
It might seem to you that I’ve dropped off the planet. It’s been a while, that’s true. But I should explain that God’s work continues, sometimes behind the scenes or completely underground, even in my “ministry of the sewers” of my hometown. The work is kind of gross, really complicated, technical, and rather tedious. It […]
Long before the rainbow was coopted by political movements resulting in its being an “in Your face” to its original meaning, the rainbow was a sign God gave to Noah (Genesis 9:8-17) and indeed to all living creatures that He’d never again punish the world (by flood) for the greatness of man’s sin. God is […]
You may have heard the old saying “Familiarity breeds contempt” (which is not today’s three-word phrase for daily Christian Living). But it conveys the idea that we tend to take things for granted, having little value for what we believe we can have at any time. Oh, but if we were to lose it! We’d […]
Do you ever feel like everything is falling to pieces all around you? The flood waters are rising and it’s all you can do to bring your life to higher ground? For those of us in Chicagoland, it has certainly felt that way. We’ve been experiencing floods of not-quite-biblical proportions and have found ourselves […]
The Christian life is filled with things that don’t seem consistent with God’s love and sovereignty. How is a Christian to act when evil seems to win? It looks so unjust. We can feel like the prophet Jeremiah who complained to God: You are always righteous, O LORD, when I bring a case before you. […]
The disciples asked, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:25-26) What is impossible for man is possible for God. What is immovable and carved in stone for humanity is no challenge for the power of the Almighty. […]
Happy Independence Day! To some of us, the Fourth of July is descriptive only of the date, after all we wouldn’t say “Happy February 14th,” December 25th, or even April 1st. The meaning for us is Independence, grounded in American history (and patterned after the freedom in biblical history from Genesis to Revelation and its […]
